> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 214](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259260) of TL-2 Suppl. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2143-1) LSID 2143-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18984201) QID Q18984201 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Desch, H.E. (fl. 1936-1954), British wood technologist, B.Sc., M.A. (Oxford), working in Kepong (Malaya) on timbers, especially Dipterocarpaceae. **Abbreviated name**: *Desch* \[standard form in IPNI: *Desch*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NY|NY]], wood samples in many "xylaria", see Taxon 27(2-3): 233-269. Mai 1978. #### Bibliography and biography IH 2: 159; Kew 2: 62-63; SK 1: 134, 4: cxxxvii, 5: cclxxii. #### Biofile - Anon., Malayan Forest Rec. 13: 18-19. 1959. #### Composite works - (1) L. Chalk, J. Burtt Davy, and H.E. Desch, *Some East African Coniferae and Leguminosae*, 68 p., *10 pl*., 1932. Issued in series Forest trees and timbers of the British Empire as No. 1. - (2) L. Chalk, J. Burtt Davy, H.E. Desch, A.C. Hoyle, *Twenty West African timber trees*, 108 p., *20 pl*., 1933, Id. as No. 2. #### Outside our period *Manual of Malayan timbers*, 2 vols., 1941-1954. ### Publications ##### n.29.823. Commercial timbers **Title** *Commercial timbers* of the *Malay Peninsula*. No. 1. The genus Shorea... with botanical notes by C.F. Symington... Kuala Lumpur (Published by permission of the Federated Malay States Government...) 1936. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Comm. timb. Malay Penins.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Colin Fraser Symington (1905-1943). *Publ*.: 1936, cover-t.p., p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-iv, \[v-viii\], \[1\]-73, *pl. 1-9* (microphot.). *Copy*: L. – Issued as Malayan Forest Records No. 12. 1936.